Building the Swingset!

Billy and Jacob spent 3 days putting together a swing set for Evan for Christmas! I think their time was very well spent. Evan could barely wait for them to get finished before he started climbing on it and plundering in their tools! Jacob took time off from working on it to give Evan a few pushes on the swing after they got it hung.

Christmas Gift Trip

Courtney, Billy and I gave Jacob and Kim a trip to Charleston for Christmas. Courtney made an online Christmas card with links to the hotel and restaurant . Evan really got into the music on the card. Just watch!

Christmas at Jacob and Kim's

Evan had a blast opening his gifts this Christmas. I think his Aunt Courtney had a big hit with her gifts to him. She gave him a "monk monk" blanket and pillow and a frog tent. He spent about thirty minutes just rolling around in the floor in his "monk monk" blanket.

Once his mama and Aunt Courtney got the frog tent put together he had fun playing in it with Courtney and with his mama!

He also got to go on his first treasure hunt with the rest of the gang! He found an Elmo book that made music. He and Granddaddy had fun walking around to the beat of the music!

Alphabet games!

This is one of Billy and Evan's favorite games! A rather unique use of the letters of the alphabet don't you think?!

Rockin' Evan

Evan is finally big enough to ride our old rocking horse. This horse belonged to my sisters and me when we were kids. When Karen and I were kids, I got the bright idea that we needed us a white stallion. Daddy had conveniently left a bucket of white paint in the playhouse where the horse was stored so we proceeded to make him a beautiful white stallion. Unfortunately, Karen got paint on her and according to her she got a whipping and I didn't! My friend painted it for me a few years ago so now Evan can enjoy our horse. He has learned to rock fast and hard! Of course, his favorite mode of riding is for granddaddy to make it bounce up and down while singing "Giddy up cowboy" along with a lot of made-up nonsense lyricks. When Billy quits bouncing and singing, Evan signs for more!! (Jacob and Kim taught him some sign langauge! He likes the more sign.)

An Einstein Movie!

An Einstein Halloween

Evan, I mean Einstein, had a really fun Halloween. He came over to our house to get a calculator before heading off to the Fall Festival at the First Baptist Church.

How do you like this hair?!

Did you know calculators can also be used to call folks?!

He tried to get the cat do some calculations on his calculator but the cat wasn't interested!

At the festival he enjoyed getting a big kiss on the cheek from GA, his babysitter....

...and eating a whole hotdog.

He went down a giant slide with his granny. Granny didn't realize how hard it would be to climb up that slide with an extra 30 something pounds when she volunteered to take him but she made it up and they flew down the slide! Einstein wasn't too sure he liked it once he was down but he didn't cry. He did the cake walk with his mama and won a cupcake! How do you like that chocolate face!?

Then he did the duck pond, the bean bag throw and the basketball toss.

He also managed to sit still long enough to have a pumpkin painted on his face!